cause to fall
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Librettist Samuel Taylor takes two not very appealing people, has them fall in love for no particular reason, and gives playgoers no special cause to fall in love with them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Him will I cause to fall into a deep sleep and hide in Cythera or Idalium, and do thou for one night take upon thee his likeness.
From The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) by Various
Fell, fel, v.t. to cause to fall: to bring to the ground: to cut down.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Aseñon, B., to fall; asenhton, ib., to cause to fall.
From The Iroquois Book of Rites by Horatio Hale
To obtain these they encircle in their embrace the trees which are young and flexible, and, shaking them violently, enjoy the fruit which they thus cause to fall.
From Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by H. W. (Henry William) Lee
